New York City-1960: Tall Skyscraper with Glass Facade

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 New York City

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Tall Skyscraper with Glass Facade — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a towering skyscraper in New York City, its glass and steel facade reflecting the bright sky. The camera pans upward, emphasizing the building's height and modernist design with vertical lines and grid-like windows. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color shifts, and a nostalgic, archival quality, offering a glimpse into mid-century urban architecture and the city's evolving skyline.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127723899

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1615 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: november 23-26
Reel-level year note: 1960
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1960 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: New York City, New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful 1960s New York City architectural footage for documentary inserts, skyline context, urban-modernism sequences, or period establishing material.
Period detail: The glass curtain-wall facade, gridded windows, and tall vertical massing may show mid-century corporate architecture in New York City.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot upward gaze, treating the skyscraper as an impressive city sight rather than a staged architectural record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include glass-and-steel tower faces, gridded window bands, blue sky, hard shadow edges, a streetlight, and adjacent high-rise forms.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows visible grain, slight color shift, soft focus, gate edges, and handheld framing that support its home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, city transition, architectural cutaway, or memory beat within a 1960s New York sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually places the viewer among tall modern office buildings, reflecting a mid-century urban streetscape without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but building identity and property-related context should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1960 8mm New York City skyscraper footage, vintage glass facade building, and home movie urban architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1960 New York City exteriors, then broader mid-century skyscraper and city-architecture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 New York City home-movie frame showing a tall glass-and-steel skyscraper facade and adjacent tower edge under bright sky. — Upward view of a gridded glass skyscraper facade in New York City.

1960 New York City frame looking up between modern glass towers, with a streetlight and blue sky visible below the facades. — Modern tower facades rise above a streetlight in a low-angle city view.

1960 New York City home-movie frame showing two tall modern buildings from street level, with dense window grids and bright sky. — Low-angle street view of adjacent modern high-rises with gridded windows.

1960 New York City frame with a tilted upward view of a glass skyscraper crown and a neighboring striped high-rise under blue sky. — Tilted upward frame of a glass tower top with another high-rise at the edge.

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